[776]
The best teacher not only learns and shares the Dharma,
the best teacher also embodies and expresses the Dharma.
[777]
Personal enlightenment with compassion
facilitates the collective enlightenment of all.
[778]
One’s supernormal powers are only
as super in positive effect
as one is super in compassion and wisdom.
[779]
May all beings have free physical lives
for freely furthering their spiritual lives.
[780]
As you are shaped by your intentional actions,
you are also what, who, why
and how you eat.
[781]
Since Dharma practice ultimately is to benefit all,
antagonising some with ‘Dharma practice’ is unbeneficial.
[782]
If the Parinirvana of Buddhas is
the end of re-manifestations to help more beings,
they would not be ones with perfect compassion…
Parinirvana is just the end of physical imperfections;
it is not the end of spiritual perfections.
[783]
A spiritual retreat is
to retreat from external distractions,
to retreat towards internal Buddha-nature.
[784]
Meaningful symbols,
though powerful,
are never as powerful as that symbolised.
[785]
Who you are mindful of (e.g. Amitabha Buddha),
you will eventually be with (e.g. in Pure Land),
and become (i.e. a Buddha) too.